Contents

1. Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS): detection, distribution and combat

2. Tackling dog obesity by tackling owner attitudes

3. Animal welfare – recent developments in the field

4. Livestock and climate change, challenges and options

5. Grasshoppers in agrosystems: pest or food?

6. Stress and immunity in the pig

7. Effects of industrial agriculture on climate change and the mitigation potential of small-scale agro-ecological farms

8. Masitinib – a targeted therapy with applications in veterinary oncology and inflammatory diseases

9. Understanding the survival strategies of nematodes

10. Life-cycle assessment of farrow-to-finish pig production systems: a review

11. Does brain lateralization have practical implications for improving animal welfare?

12. Transgenesis in animal agriculture and zoonotic disease resistance

13. Bioinformatics approaches to livestock animal genomics research

14. Compost barns – an alternative housing system for dairy cows?

15. The mechanisms of prion disease

16. Animal diet formulation models: a review (1950–2010)

17. Understanding amoebic gill disease

18. Rates and risk factors for contagious disease and mortality in young dairy heifers

19. Visible genetic polymorphisms in domesticated animal species

20. STEC O157 in the beef chain – risk assessment and management

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